Lycée Francais International Marguerite Duras

The Lycée Français International Marguerite Duras (LFI Duras) in Ho Chi Minh City is a French school approved (homologated) by the French Ministry of National Education and linked by agreement to the AEFE network of French schools abroad. It teaches about 1,200 pupils from the petite section of maternelle, at age three, to terminale: maternelle and the école primaire from CP to CM2 form three learning cycles, the collège runs from sixième to troisième and prepares the Diplôme National du Brevet, and the general and technological lycée covers seconde to terminale with specialty courses leading to the baccalauréat. It is the only school in Ho Chi Minh City approved to hold the brevet and baccalauréat examinations. Since 2010 the school has occupied new, purpose-designed buildings on a site of more than 24,000 m² on Route 11 in Long Binh.

The campus built for the school in 2010 includes a school restaurant, a cafeteria, a student common room and green spaces. Sports facilities include a football pitch, a gymnasium and a swimming pool, and a dedicated performance hall supports the theatre options offered at the lycée. Teaching rooms are equipped with science laboratories and interactive whiteboards, and from seconde every student brings a laptop. Primary pupils visit the BCD library with their class every week, while secondary students use a 140 m² documentation and information centre (CDI) for reading, research and careers information.

The school runs a monitoring system for pupils with special educational needs (EBEP). Together with the family, it can set up a personalised programme for educational success (PPRE) targeting specific skills, a personalised support plan (PAP) for pupils with a specific learning disorder recognised by a doctor, a personalised schooling project (PPS) for pupils with a recognised disability, and an individual welcome plan (PAI) for health conditions. Families can also involve outside specialists such as therapists, speech therapists or psychologists. In primary the director coordinates this support, while in secondary designated EBEP referent teachers and the school nursing service act as the link with each class's teaching team.

For maternelle and primary pupils, after-school activities (APS) run in semester blocks from 14:25 to 15:55, Monday to Thursday, led by qualified instructors, with up to three activities per child. Secondary students can join the school sports association, part of France's UNSS school sports federation and coached by the PE teachers. Clubs include a secondary choir of around fifty students that rehearses twice a week and stages musicals, a sustainable development (EDD) club, a weekly chess club with tournaments, and a Model United Nations club held in English for students from quatrième. A school bus service run by an outside operator is available for an annual fee, and canteen menus are planned by age, with regional, international, organic and festive theme days.